Java with Object-Oriented Programming

Paul Wang’s JAVA WITH OBJECT-ORIENTED PROGRAMMING eases students into an understanding of the object-oriented paradigm from the very first page, just as he does in JAVA WITH OBJECT-ORIENTED PROGRAMMING WITH WORLDWIDE WEB APPLICATIONS, on which this new book is modeled. After the early chapters that present classes and Java features and constructs, Wang introduces new object-oriented concepts throughout the book, while clearly showing how Java addresses these issues. He also goes the extra step of including case studies to illustrate how Java and object-oriented programming are applied. Early in the book, Wang introduces students to a case study involving a pocket calculator. This case study is revisited throughout the book as students learn new aspects of object–oriented programming and the Java language. The book then concludes with a chapter on some of the processes associated with object–oriented design. As a result, students are able to fully grasp the concepts they learn.

Paul Wang obtained his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1971. He became a professor of computer science at Kent State University in 1981. Currently, Wang is also a Director of Research of the Institute for Computational Mathematics at Kent State University. Before joining Kent State University in 1977, he was a computer science faculty at MIT. Wang is one of the leading experts in the field of Symbolic and Algebraic Computation (SAC). He has received over thirty research fundings from government agencies (NSF, NASA, DOE, ARO, DARPA, and Ohio Board of Regents) and industry. His research interests include parallelism in symbolic mathematical computations, problem solving environments that combine symbolic, numeric, and graphic techniques, automatic code generation and its application to engineering problems, protocols for mathematical data exchange, distributed systems for scientific computing, and application of object orientation.